Re: [PATCH/RFC] nfs: NFS_SWAP should depend on SWAP

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 4:32 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If CONFIG_SWAP=n, it does not make much sense to offer the user the
> option to enable support for swapping over NFS, as that will still fail
> at run time:
>
>     # swapon /swap
>     swapon: /swap: swapon failed: Function not implemented
>
> Fix this by adding a dependency on CONFIG_SWAP.
>
> Fixes: a564b8f0398636ba ("nfs: enable swap on NFS")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Marked RFC, as this still doesn't seem to work.
> When enabled, the kernel log is spammed with:
>
>     [  449.371536] __swap_writepage: 413288 callbacks suppressed
>     [  449.371577] Write error on dio swapfile (10047488)
>     [  449.382435] Write error on dio swapfile (14147584)
>     [  449.387320] Write error on dio swapfile (10919936)
>     [  449.392474] Write error on dio swapfile (8945664)
>     [  449.397263] Write error on dio swapfile (24256512)
>     [  449.402330] Write error on dio swapfile (14307328)
>     [  449.407195] Write error on dio swapfile (229376)
>     [  449.412031] Write error on dio swapfile (10293248)
>     [  449.416891] Write error on dio swapfile (2007040)

FWIW, swap over /dev/loop0 using a file on nfsroot also doesn't work: system
hangs, but is still reponsive to ping.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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